POLITICO poll shows mounting danger for Dems — President Barack Obama's job approval slump and voters' entrenched wariness of his health care law are dogging Democrats ahead of the 2014 midterm elections, and Republicans have captured a lead in the areas home to the year's most competitive races, according to a new POLITICO poll.

U.S. Charges Five Chinese Military Hackers for Cyber Espionage Against U.S. Corporations and a Labor Organization for Commercial Advantage … A grand jury in the Western District of Pennsylvania (WDPA) indicted five Chinese military hackers for computer hacking, economic espionage …

What to Watch For in Three Primaries — Not much matters six months before a midterm election, but Tuesday's primaries are an exception. Republicans will have an opportunity to nominate candidates in three potentially competitive Senate contests: in Kentucky, Georgia and Oregon. Here's what you need to know.

Springtime for Bankers — By any normal standard, economic policy since the onset of the financial crisis has been a dismal failure. It's true that we avoided a full replay of the Great Depression. But employment has taken more than six years to claw its way back to pre-crisis levels …

Higher ed becoming a joke: Column — American colleges are fraught with petty politics and bad economics. — As college graduates around the country fling their caps into the air, college and university administrators are ending the year in a less positive state.

Abramson's Exit at The Times Puts Tensions on Display — Back in 2010, before she became executive editor of The New York Times, Jill Abramson sent me a handwritten attaboy note about a big story. It still hangs in my cubicle: “You wrote a story about the trashing of a once great American institution and people never tire of that.”

President Obama golfs with Bain Capital lobbyist — One of President Barack Obama's golf partners this weekend was a lobbyist for the financial firm Bain Capital. — According to a White House pool report, Obama hit the links on Saturday at the exclusive Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville …

Is This the Democrats' War on Women? — In 2013, an ex-boyfriend called the cops on Monica Wehby—and four days before her GOP primary, the police report resurfaced. To blame for the leak? A Democratic attack, say Republicans. — Republicans are crying foul over an eleventh-hour flurry …

Boehner's big reform decision — It's up to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). — Republican and Democratic advocates see one final, long-shot chance to pass immigration reform this summer, and its fate rests with a Speaker stuck between his party's resistance and his search for a career-defining legacy.

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